«А. Навои Поэмы» Серия первая. Том 26. 1972 год «Библиотека всемирной литературы»

Book is in good condition, dust jacket is in poor condition. There is a stain on the binding and spine of the book in the lower left corner. The flyleaf and the first page of the book are slightly bent.

Description: Volume 26. Poems.

Content:

V. Zakhidov. Alisher Navoi (article), pp. 5-30

Alisher Navoi. Confusion of the Righteous (poem, translation by V. Derzhavin), pp. 31-157

Alisher Navoi. Farhad and Shirin (poem, translated by L. Penkovsky), pp. 159-329

Alisher Navoi. Leyli and Majnun (poem, translated by S. Lipkin), pp. 331-449

Alisher Navoi. Seven planets (poem, translated by S. Lipkin), pp. 451-596

Alisher Navoi. Wall of Iskander (poem, translation by V. Derzhavin), pp. 597-792

A. Kayumov. Notes, pp. 793-808

Explanatory Dictionary, pp. 809-814

Note:

On the dust jacket and inside illustrations: miniatures from manuscripts of Navoi poems of the 15th century.

On the frontispiece: a miniature of the Herat school, 15th century.

The book has 12 tabbed sheets of illustrations on thicker paper.

The basis for this edition of "Five Poems" was the texts included in the ten-volume collected works of Navoi in 1968, published by the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. The texts of all five works are printed with abbreviations. Comments on this volume are partly taken from the same edition.